05/10/1998 01:58 PM Senate RLS

CHAIRMAN KELLY brought HB  11 - DRIVERS LICENSE REQUIREMENTS FOR               
MINORS before the committee as the next order of business, and                 
directed attention to a proposed Rules SCS.                                    
                                                                               
JUANITA HENSLEY, Division of Motor Vehicles, Department of                     
Administration, noted that Sections 4 through 14 are were the new              
sections in the Rules SCS.  She said several years ago when minor              
consuming was decriminalized, it basically took away the ability               
for the court to order in an individual into alcohol treatment if              
he or she was determined to have an alcohol problem.  The new                  
provisions in the Rules SCS will allow the individual to be sent to            
an alcohol screening, and, if there is a problem, then complete a              
course through the Alcohol Safety Action Program, which is run                 
through the  Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse in the Department              
of Health and Social Services.  It also allows those courses to                
approved and designated for those individuals who are under the age            
of 21.  Currently, the Division of Motor Vehicles approves alcohol             
information schools, however, they do not have the expertise to be             
approving these types of courses.  If an individual receives a                 
drivers' license revocation under the use it, lose it provisions of            
the minor consuming, then before the individual can get the                    
drivers' license back, he or she must go through a screening,                  
evaluation and treatment.                                                      
                                                                               
SENATOR TAYLOR commented this is something they have been trying to            
accomplish for a long time, and he expressed his appreciation for              
all the work done on this issue by Loren Jones, Director of the                
Division of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, and Don Dapcevich, Executive            
Director of the Governor's Advisory Board on Alcoholism and Drug               
Abuse.                                                                         
                                                                               
SENATOR LEMAN  moved the adoption of SCS HB 11(RLS), and hearing no            
objection, CHAIRMAN KELLY stated the motion carried.                           
                                                                               
SENATOR LEMAN moved and asked unanimous consent SCS HB 11(RLS) be              
approved for calendaring at the discretion of the Chair.  Hearing              
no objection, it was so ordered.